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QCon London March 12-14 Announced
QCon London 2008, taking place March 12-14 has been launched and is open for registration. QCon is an enterprise software development conference for team leads, architects, and project managers covering the range of topics also on InfoQ as well as a strong focus on architecture & design, real world case studies, and more. This is the 3rd QCon, don't miss it!
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Buzzword – RIA Word Processor: Built Using Adobe Flex / AIR
Adobe recently acquired Virtual Ubiquity, the creators of Buzzword - a web based word processor. InfoQ.com connected with David Coletta and Tad Staley of Adobe Systems to learn more about the product, the challenges and benefits of using Adobe Flex for its development, and what the future holds for the product.
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Parallel Processing Framework JPPF offers Load Balancing, Failover and J2EE Integration
Java Parallel Processing Framework (JPPF) project team recently announced the first Release Candidate (RC1) of Version 1.0 of the product. JPPF is an open source grid computing framework that can be used to run Java applications in parallel in a distributed execution environment. JPPF team is planning on Version 1.0 GA release next month.
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Oniguruma Java port speeds up JRuby
Joni, the Java port of the Oniguruma Regex engine, has been merged into the JRuby trunk. This promises to be the final step in implementing compatible and fast Regexes for JRuby... and initial tests with REXML seem to back that up.
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Performance Tuning Spring Applications
In a new white paper from SpringSource, Adrian Colyer explains the Spring from a new perspective - the runtime environment - and provides tips for performance tuning.
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GigaSpaces goes free for small business
Gigaspaces earlier this month announced that it will now be offering small business free perpetual use of its eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) product. Business with < 5M in revenues can get free licenses of the software platform, in perpetuity. GigaSpaces platform is primarily Java-based but also has .NET clients. InfoQ spoke to Geva Perry from GigaSpaces to find out more.
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Article: Key Takeaways and lessons learned from QCon SF
Bloggers were quite active at InfoQ's QCon San Francisco conference which took place Nov 7-9. Bloggers wrote about 32 of the 60 sessions at the event, including the keynotes, session on Linked-In, eBay, Orbitz architectures, and more. Read this article to learn the most valuable insights the attendees took the time to blog about, as well as many other aspects about QCon.
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Why do Java developers hate BPM?
John Raynolds asked recently the question: "Why do java developers hate BPM?". His controversial post generated a lot of comments that speak more generally about the growing divide between modeling environments and development environments, and the role of the business in traditional development cycles.
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What is Needed for the Next Level of Browser Applications?
In the keynote presentation of The Ajax Experience in Boston, Alex Russell and Joe Walker posed the question "What's needed to take development in the browser to the next level?"
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Raible Revisits Comparing Web Frameworks
This past week Matt Raible gave a presentation at ApacheCon comparing Java Web Frameworks. This is a follow up to a presentation he gave a few years ago. It is interesting to note the changes in the frameworks being evaluated.
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SpringSource's Adrian Colyer Details Spring in Production
Adrian Colyer from SpringSource hosted a webinar on "Spring In Production" topic three weeks ago. The presentation covered the topics on Spring Runtime Kernel architecture, how Spring supports enterprise services like transactions, data access, security, and messaging, and how to tune a Spring-powered application.
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Article: Iterative, Automated and Continuous Performance
A new InfoQ article looks at evaluating performance in an iterative and continuous manner.
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IBM and SAP Open Source their JVM Diagnostics Tools
IBM recently announced their Java diagnostic tool suite that includes the products Dump Analyzer For Java, Extensible Verbose Toolkit (EVTK) for Garbage Collection (GC), and Java Lock Analyzer (JLA) tools. SAP also made an announcement last month about their heap analyzer tool called SAP Memory Analyzer and the tool's integration with Eclipse IDE.
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Eclipse is elected for JCP Executive Committee
The final results of 2007 Java Community Process (JCP) executive committee elections were announced on Tuesday. Eclipse Foundation is among the newly elected members in Java Standard and Enterprise Edition category. This is the first time an open source tooling vendor won a seat in the JCP executive committee. Time Warner Cable is the newly elected member in Java Micro Edition group.
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Sun’s Promise: Reliable, Portable, Functional Java Plug-In
InfoQ recently interviewed Nicolas Lorain, the product manager for Java SE, and discussed the rewrite of the Java plug-in slated for Java SE 6 Update N.